I heard two people arguing about whether or not someone farted.

  • @bobsuruncle
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    341 month ago

    Not one I overheard but one were I was overheard. In Paris at a restaurant where my girlfriend and I (anglophones) commented on the couples baby beside us. She said it was such a cute baby. I countered the most babies are cute so it should go without saying. You really only have to comment when they are butt ugly like in Seinfeld. It was a fun discussion which made us both laugh. Mid meal the couple got up and said in English that they enjoyed it too.

  • @sighofannoyance
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    251 month ago

    “it was an awkward gesture or autism or someting…”

    • Scott
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      131 month ago

      I have a friend who said “misunderstood autistic billionaire”

      They use xitter on a daily basis and apparently just write off all the pro Nazi content

      • @NABDad
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        91 month ago

        Your friend might be a Nazi.

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          31 month ago

          Jeff Foxworthy has “You might be a redneck”, and the current government has “You might be a nazi”

  • bizarroland
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    221 month ago

    I got involved in a argument between two older people about whether the earth rotated or not.

    The very strange thing is that after I confirmed to them that the earth did indeed rotate and that is why the sun would rise in the east and set in the west, that was the end of the conversation and they thanked me and moved on.

  • Glifted
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    201 month ago

    Not an argument but I once heard my neighbor casually (but loudly) discuss with someone how she could only orgasm anally

  • @[email protected]
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    171 month ago

    If specific people existed when they where right in front of them existing. Those people are LGBT people and it’s happening to much.

  • Drusas
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    151 month ago

    Not one that I overheard but one that I was involved in:

    I said that I didn’t like bright yellow. This apparently was extremely offensive to the friend I was dating at the time and he had to convince me that I was wrong and there is no room for opinion on the matter of color preferences.

      • Drusas
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        31 month ago

        I don’t know where people come up with these things.

      • FuglyDuck
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        21 month ago

        I’m curious what your neighbor thinks about a nice tie-dye?

  • @lordnikon
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    121 month ago

    Is a hot dog a taco? Heard that one at dinner tonight.

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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      81 month ago

      A hot dog is 100% a taco. The real debate is whether or not a hot dog/taco is a sandwich.

      To answer this, you first need to solve two other questions: First, what would you consider to be bread? Second, whether a sandwich requires two separate pieces of bread. Is a wrap a sandwich? Most would consider a tortilla to at least be a form of bread, but it’s only one piece. A gyro, made with flatbread? What if it’s one solid piece of bread that is totally sealed, like a hot pocket, calzone, or Asian dumpling? Is dumpling considered “bready” enough to count? Or do we not count it because it’s not leavened?

      And that brings us back to the taco argument. Do we consider a taco a sandwich? If we consider a wrap a sandwich, I would argue yes. Because the only functional difference between a taco and a wrap is how big the tortilla is. And if a taco is a sandwich, then a hot dog would also be considered a sandwich.

    • Drusas
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      21 month ago

      I’ve never heard that one, but I have heard people argue for a hot dog being a sandwich.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      21 month ago

      There are some questions that make you think. Is a hot dog a sandwich? Does a toilet paper roll have 1 or 2 holes? Is a cereal bowl with milk a soup?

      Then there are some questions that kill your brain. Is a hot dog a taco? Wtf?

      • LostXOR
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        51 month ago

        A toilet paper roll is topologically a torus, which has one hole, so that’s easy. The other ones though…

    • @Treczoks
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      11 month ago

      A hot dog is a sandwich.

  • Plum
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    121 month ago

    Whether the Newport Jazz Festival was in Europe, because she knew it was in Europe, because that’s the only time she’d been to Europe.

    Difficulty rating: we were within 100 miles of Newport, Rhode Island, at the time. 2 hours in a car.

      • @tamal3
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        11 month ago

        Maybe soon they’ll annex, but currently no. RI might hope.

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          41 month ago

          I mean the whole area is New England! It’s got England right in the name!

          • @tamal3
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            11 month ago

            That was from the exiting, not the annexing, but maybe it’ll smooth the transition anyway :)

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    I was walking through one of the dodgier parts of my city fairly late at night with not too many people around. I could see these 2 drunk weirdo guys with a kind of homeless vibe. There was an older guy and a younger dude, sitting on a bench, I could hear the older guy. Imagine this with a thick crocodile Dundee Aussie accent.

    “I don’t believe it, I CAN’T believe it, after all I’ve done for you. I was nice to you. I bought you cheese, I… … …”

    An awkward 4 to 5 second silence followed as it slowly dawned on the older guy that his list of benevolent acts only had 1 item before he followed up with

    “I bought you CHEESE mate!”

  • @FanciestPants
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    101 month ago

    “Look man, all I’m saying is that if it wasn’t for that song most people wouldn’t even know how to spell bananas”.

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      51 month ago

      bananananana*

      *Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling “banana,” but didn’t know how you stopped.

  • @WeeSheep
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    91 month ago

    I had an argument with my partner that they got to sit in bed on their phone for 10 minutes while I had to get up and care for the newborn. They were paying bills. I was still jealous. The argument ended with us both agreeing we were tired and would send the kid to daycare and nap.

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    I was in Spain, waiting outside a tournament venue for Magic: The Gathering. Two guys were talking, presumably in Spanish. I knew no spanish, but I could tell the one guy was really excited, almost choking back a laugh while speaking quickly and loudly before he held out his hand vertically, swung it left and right like a table tennis paddle while loudly exclaiming “RAGARAGARAGARAGA”.

    The other guy was listening closely with a completely unfazed expression.

    Their conversation continued.

    At that point, I started to wonder: what were they talking about? What kind of conversation could lead to that motion and that complimentary sound to be adequate? Why was the other guy seemingly so unamused when the first guy was so excited?

    This happened probably around 10 years ago, and it bothers me to this day. I will never know for sure, of course, but I have yet to think of a single topic which could reasonably prompt that interaction.

    • @[email protected]
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      Maybe the one guy was just telling the story of how he overheard someone with a ping pong paddle saying RAGARAGARAGARAGARAGARAGA

  • FuglyDuck
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    81 month ago

    that we should worry about the feelings of Nazis.

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    I speak Russian due to having lived under Soviet occupstion and constantly overhear Russian tourists while traveling in Asia and honestly I wish I couldn’t understand because they argue over the dumbest shit. Now I’m in Thailand and the theme is price measuring everything down to the cents. I’ve heard several loud arguments over whether a thing is cheaper here than at home etc it’s so weird. I get that Russia is going through an economic crisis but why you’re traveling at all then.

  • @Veedem
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    51 month ago

    Overheard on a game chat recently. Two guys arguing whether 100 guys could take on a silverback gorilla. One of them insisted that silverbacks have impenetrable skin lol.

    • FuglyDuck
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      81 month ago

      armed?

      human’s technology is our evolutionary advantage. a single human- even a weak one- could kill a gorilla if it had an appropriate rifle or shotgun.

      unarmed? dude might have a point… I’m not sure a hundred people could fight a gorilla at the same time.

      • @Veedem
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        41 month ago

        Unarmed lol

        • bizarroland
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          51 month ago

          “I could take a gorilla easy. What i woukd do is circle around the gorilla, dodging its attacks until it wore itself out then throw it into a sleeper hold until it was down for the count” - some guy who got his shit wrecked by a gorilla

      • @XeroxCool
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        31 month ago

        They have way more strength muscle and much less endurance muscle. 1v1 x50 followed by 5v1 might work

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          41 month ago

          Are we talking human-shaped automatons or actual humans? Cause if you tell me I’m up first to 1v1 that gorilla unarmed, I’m noping the fuck out of there.

          • FuglyDuck
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            21 month ago

            also, I’m not sure we could muster enough strength to actually harm it without some sort of tool.

            I figure after it rips the first guy to shredds, everybody else decides it’s a stupid idea and the gorilla wins by default.